News 6/24/24

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Virtual pregnancy and newborn care provider Pomelo Care raises $46 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to over $79 million.

Pomelo Care founder and CEO Marta Kerns spent seven years at Flatiron Health before launching the company in 2021.

Webinars

June 26 (Wednesday) noon ET. “Population Risk Management in Action: Automating Clinical Workflows to Improve Medication Adherence.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Colin Banas, MD, MHA, chief medical officer, DrFirst; Weston Blakeslee, PhD, VP of population health, DrFirst. What if you could measure and manage medication adherence in a way that would eliminate the burdens of medication history collection, patient identification, and prioritization? The presenters will describe how to use MedHx PRM’s new capabilities to harness the most complete medication history data on the market, benefit from near real-time medication data delivered within 24 hours, automatically build rosters of eligible patients, and identify gaps of care in seconds.

June 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Snackable Summer Series, Session 1: The Intelligent Health Record.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. This webinar will describe how HealthVision, HDAI’s Intelligent Health Management System, is transforming care across health systems and value-based care organizations. This 30-minute session will answer the question: what if you could see critical information from hundreds of EHR pages in a one-page patient chart and risk summary that serves the entire care team? We will tour the Spotlight, an easy-to-digest health profile and risk prediction tool. Session 2 will describe HDAI’s Intelligent Analytics solution, while Session 3 will tour HDAI’s Intelligent Workflow solution.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Heyday Health will use $12.5 million in new funding to expand its virtual care and house call services for Medicare patients into new markets in Ohio and Kentucky.

Avail Health launches to help RNs and NPs start and manage their own primary care practices.

Hybrid primary care and weight management company Knownwell acquires online weight-loss clinic Alfie Health. Knownwell will add Alfie Health’s AI-based ObesityRx platform to its clinical decision support workflows.

Pear Suite announces $1 million in funding. The company has developed care and social services navigation software for community health workers.

People

Troy Wasilefsky (Iodine Software) joins Greenway Health as chief revenue officer.

Knownwell names Alfie Health founder and former CEO Alexander Singh head of analytics, James Chaukos (Interwell Health) COO, and John Frager (Pine Medical) chief growth officer.

Announcements and Implementations

Kossuth Regional Health Center (IA) implements Phreesia’s patient intake software.

Oracle Health and NextGen introduce AI-powered ambient listening clinical documentation tools for physician practices.

Government and Politics

HHS finalizes the penalties providers can expect to face if they engage in information-blocking activities.

Other

The local paper profiles the struggles faced by physicians at Community Health Center of Snohomish County in Everett, WA. Clinical staff joined a union last year to have a stronger voice in decisions made by upper management – a move prompted by the unexplained firing of one of the center’s most popular physicians, cutbacks to staff and operating hours, and a downgrade in EHR technology that prompted 25% of the staff to leave.

Sponsor Updates

• Waystar staff across the country celebrate the company’s Nasdaq debut

• Black Book Research publishes the results of its 2024 RCM user survey, recognizing Waystar as a top performer in several categories
• Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast, “Interview with Joshua Reischer, MD.”
• Waystar will exhibit at the EClinicalWorks Dallas Day Show June 26.
• Nordic and Waystar will exhibit at the HFMA Annual Conference June 24-27 in Las Vegas.

Blog Posts

• Best practices in enterprise care management for patient-centered care excellence (Nordic)
• Top Challenges for CNIOs: Governance, Priorities, and More (PerfectServe)

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News 6/19/24

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Telepsychiatry services provider Talkiatry raises $130 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total raised to $245 million. Launched in 2020, the company partners with payers to offer in-network mental healthcare from 300 employed psychiatrists.

Webinars

June 26 (Wednesday) noon ET. “Population Risk Management in Action: Automating Clinical Workflows to Improve Medication Adherence.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Colin Banas, MD, MHA, chief medical officer, DrFirst; Weston Blakeslee, PhD, VP of population health, DrFirst. What if you could measure and manage medication adherence in a way that would eliminate the burdens of medication history collection, patient identification, and prioritization? The presenters will describe how to use MedHx PRM’s new capabilities to harness the most complete medication history data on the market, benefit from near real-time medication data delivered within 24 hours, automatically build rosters of eligible patients, and identify gaps of care in seconds.

June 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Snackable Summer Series, Session 1: The Intelligent Health Record.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. This webinar will describe how HealthVision, HDAI’s Intelligent Health Management System, is transforming care across health systems and value-based care organizations. This 30-minute session will answer the question: what if you could see critical information from hundreds of EHR pages in a one-page patient chart and risk summary that serves the entire care team? We will tour the Spotlight, an easy-to-digest health profile and risk prediction tool. Session 2 will describe HDAI’s Intelligent Analytics solution, while Session 3 will tour HDAI’s Intelligent Workflow solution.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Announcements and Implementations

One Health (NC) selects HealthPrecision’s Medical Brain AI clinical decision support technology.

Allergy & Asthma Clinic of West Texas and West Texas Allergy rebrand to AllerVie Health, their parent company, and implement Meditab’s Intelligent Medical Software EHR and patient portal.

Nice Speech Lady, a speech pathology clinic in New Mexico, implements Sunoh.ai’s medical scribe software.

Cardiovascular Associates of America selects EHR, RCM, and practice management software from Athenahealth.

Research and Innovation

An AMA survey of 1,000 primary care and specialty physicians finds that prior authorizations likely contribute to physician burnout, with respondents noting that they complete an average of 43 PAs per week. Thirty-five percent have staff dedicated exclusively to handling PAs. The majority of survey-takers say PAs lead to care delays or treatment abandonment. Twenty-four percent say PAs have led to serious adverse events for their patients.

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News 6/17/24

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Concentra files paperwork with the SEC for a $100 million IPO. The occupational healthcare provider operates 547 healthcare centers and 151 on-site clinics. Parent company Select Medical will retain 80% of the stock.

Webinars

June 26 (Wednesday) noon ET. “Population Risk Management in Action: Automating Clinical Workflows to Improve Medication Adherence.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Colin Banas, MD, MHA, chief medical officer, DrFirst; Weston Blakeslee, PhD, VP of population health, DrFirst. What if you could measure and manage medication adherence in a way that would eliminate the burdens of medication history collection, patient identification, and prioritization? The presenters will describe how to use MedHx PRM’s new capabilities to harness the most complete medication history data on the market, benefit from near real-time medication data delivered within 24 hours, automatically build rosters of eligible patients, and identify gaps of care in seconds.

June 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Snackable Summer Series, Session 1: The Intelligent Health Record.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. This webinar will describe how HealthVision, HDAI’s Intelligent Health Management System, is transforming care across health systems and value-based care organizations. This 30-minute session will answer the question: what if you could see critical information from hundreds of EHR pages in a one-page patient chart and risk summary that serves the entire care team? We will tour the Spotlight, an easy-to-digest health profile and risk prediction tool. Session 2 will describe HDAI’s Intelligent Analytics solution, while Session 3 will tour HDAI’s Intelligent Workflow solution.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Marigold Health raises $11 million in a Series A funding round. The startup offers app-based, anonymous, peer-to-peer recovery support for patients dealing with substance use disorders.

How refreshing: Arizona-based primary care chain My Doctor Now announces that it will open its 15th clinic this September. The provider, an Epic customer, also offers virtual visits and house calls. It announced an undisclosed amount of funding earlier this year, bringing its total raised to $60 million.

People

AI-powered eye screening software vendor Eyenuk names Chief Commercial Officer Paul Praino interim CEO.

Noom promotes Adonis Saremi, MD to chief medical officer, and names Aaron Severs (DocGo) chief product officer and Peter Scherr (Incredible Health) chief marketing officer.

Announcements and Implementations

The Wish Clinic (CO) selects virtual wound care services from Clara Care.

Sponsor Updates

Blog Posts

• Prioritizing patient-centered billing: HFMA report emphasizes clear and compassionate strategies (Nordic)
• Nurses of Note 2024: The Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PerfectServe)

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News 6/12/24

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Virtual mental healthcare company Brightside Health acquires Lionrock Recovery, which offers virtual intensive outpatient addiction treatment services.

Brightside announced $32 million in Series C funding earlier this year.

Webinars

June 26 (Wednesday) noon ET. “Population Risk Management in Action: Automating Clinical Workflows to Improve Medication Adherence.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Colin Banas, MD, MHA, chief medical officer, DrFirst; Weston Blakeslee, PhD, VP of population health, DrFirst. What if you could measure and manage medication adherence in a way that would eliminate the burdens of medication history collection, patient identification, and prioritization? The presenters will describe how to use MedHx PRM’s new capabilities to harness the most complete medication history data on the market, benefit from near real-time medication data delivered within 24 hours, automatically build rosters of eligible patients, and identify gaps of care in seconds.

June 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Snackable Summer Series, Session 1: The Intelligent Health Record.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. This webinar will describe how HealthVision, HDAI’s Intelligent Health Management System, is transforming care across health systems and value-based care organizations. This 30-minute session will answer the question: what if you could see critical information from hundreds of EHR pages in a one-page patient chart and risk summary that serves the entire care team? We will tour the Spotlight, an easy-to-digest health profile and risk prediction tool. Session 2 will describe HDAI’s Intelligent Analytics solution, while Session 3 will tour HDAI’s Intelligent Workflow solution.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

People

Erin Surprise (Provation) joins Qualifacts as chief customer success officer.

Announcements and Implementations

South Shore Family Practice (MI) implements Sunoh.ai’s medical scribe software.

Unlock Health develops a digital substance use health risk assessment for behavioral health providers.

OneFifteen, a nonprofit addiction treatment provider based in Ohio, selects Kipu Health’s EHR and RCM software.

Texas Oncology will implement DeepScribe’s ambient clinical documentation technology across its 280 locations.

Other

Palomar Health Medical Group (CA) enters its sixth week of downtime, with a dearth of updates from the group leaving patients scrambling to reschedule appointments and access medical records. A notice on the group’s website says it’s working with forensic specialists to get systems up and running within the coming weeks.

The local news profiles the difference Direct Relief’s Power for Health program is making in the operations of community health centers. The program offers centers grants that cover the cost and installation of rooftop solar and battery storage systems, and five years of maintenance support, providing vital back-up power when natural disasters strike or planned outages occur. Alliance Medical Center (CA) CEO Sue Labbe says the program has been essential to maintaining patient care during extreme weather: “We had been longing for solar, but we are a nonprofit with tight margins. It would come out of funds to pay for vulnerable patients,”

Sponsor Updates

• EClinicalWorks publishes a new customer success story, “Streamlining Data Reporting for Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky.”

Blog Posts

• AdvancedMD & Salesforce: Integrating for patient intake, scheduling & reporting (AdvancedMD)

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News 6/10/24

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Value-based cancer care company Thyme Care adds to its previously announced round of $60 million in Series B funding with investments from Echo Health Ventures and CVS Health Ventures.

Webinars

June 26 (Wednesday) noon ET. “Population Risk Management in Action: Automating Clinical Workflows to Improve Medication Adherence.” Sponsor: DrFirst. Presenters: Colin Banas, MD, MHA, chief medical officer, DrFirst; Weston Blakeslee, PhD, VP of population health, DrFirst. What if you could measure and manage medication adherence in a way that would eliminate the burdens of medication history collection, patient identification, and prioritization? The presenters will describe how to use MedHx PRM’s new capabilities to harness the most complete medication history data on the market, benefit from near real-time medication data delivered within 24 hours, automatically build rosters of eligible patients, and identify gaps of care in seconds.

June 27 (Thursday) noon ET. “Snackable Summer Series, Session 1: The Intelligent Health Record.” Sponsor: Health Data Analytics Institute. This webinar will describe how HealthVision, HDAI’s Intelligent Health Management System, is transforming care across health systems and value-based care organizations. This 30-minute session will answer the question: what if you could see critical information from hundreds of EHR pages in a one-page patient chart and risk summary that serves the entire care team? We will tour the Spotlight, an easy-to-digest health profile and risk prediction tool. Session 2 will describe HDAI’s Intelligent Analytics solution, while Session 3 will tour HDAI’s Intelligent Workflow solution.

Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Stitch Employment Services launches with $9 million in funding. The company, incubated at Redesign Health, specializes in helping independent practices with HR tasks.

People

Shane Shepherd (Advanced Pain Care) joins vision practice billing software vendor Anagram as head of RCM.

AristaMD names Keith Pinter (Rise Health) CEO.

Announcements and Implementations

EClinicalWorks announces that Rocky Mountain Women’s Clinic (ID) and Stone Mountain Health Services (VA) have implemented its Sunoh.ai virtual medical scribe technology.

Pediatric Associates will implement Innovaccer’s Healthcare AI Platform across its facilities in seven states.

I Am Boundless, an Ohio-based provider of care services for patients with behavioral health and/or intellectual and development disabilities, selects NextGen’s enterprise EHR and practice management systems.

Government and Politics

CityMD, a VillageMD-owned chain of 117 urgent care practices in New York and New Jersey, will pay federal authorities $12 million to settle allegations that the company submitted false and/or inaccurate payment claims for a HRSA-funded COVID testing program for uninsured patients. CityMD apparently did not perform its due diligence in confirming whether or not patients were in fact insured at the time of testing.

Other

The local paper profiles the continued efforts of the son of the late Robert Kieber, MD to reunite baby pictures from his father’s practice in St. Joseph, MO with their owners or family members. The photos date from the 1940s to the 1960s.

InformationWeek documents the journey Headspace has taken to ensure its virtual mental healthcare services are secure, honing in on how it bundled its compliance, privacy, and security programs into a unified privacy operations center. While the details of its development are certainly interesting, perhaps the most telling fact is that training Headspace clinicians to use a password manager was the hardest part of the entire process.

Sponsor Updates

• Nordic releases a new “Designing for Health” podcast titled “Interview with Kit Delgado, MD.”

Blog Posts

• From burnout to balance: The untapped power of medical assistants in healthcare (Nordic)
• 4 Best Smartphones for Nurse Communication (PerfectServe)
• Need to improve revenue capture? Start with charge capture + DRG accuracy (Waystar)
• Feeling burned out? There’s a tech prescription for that! (EClinicalWorks)
• MIPS Improvement Activities: What qualifies as a high-weight activity? (AdvancedMD)

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